PHP – Paul Swarthout

To FILE or not to FILE

PaulSwarthout — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:50:47 +0000

…well that IS the question today. A Little Background __FILE__ is a magic constant in PHP. When it is invoked in a PHP script, it returns the fully qualified, fully resolved, path to the current file. What could be easier? It is built into PHP, the popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to …

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Read-only Class Properties in PHP

PaulSwarthout — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:26:28 +0000

I’ve been writing PHP code for over 3 years now. Nearly every day, I learn a new “trick” with PHP. Often, those learning experiences start with a Google search, such as “Can I make class properties read-only in PHP?“ The simple and short answer to that question is: No you cannot. But the more accurate …

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Initializing Static Classes in PHP

PaulSwarthout — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:32:58 +0000

I have been writing code in a variety of programming languages since the early 1980s. Today, I spend my time developing plugins for WordPress. That means PHP. On the whole, I like PHP. One of my favorite things about it is that whenever I need something special, there is often a built-in function that already …

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